Tag: African/Afro/Black Studies: Page 33

African-American

REVISITING A CLASSIC

Things Fall Apar t is being brought back to center stage after 50 years for its role in shaping modern African literature.

April 16, 2008

African-American

Dyson: Black History Month “Living, Significant and Important”

Minister and civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. earned in today’s dollars nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year in the early 1960’s and gave nearly all of it to the civil rights movement, Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson said Thursday during a speech dissecting the roots of a celebration we now call Black History month.

February 28, 2008

Leadership & Policy

University of Connecticut Hopes to Start Offering Black Studies Major in Fall

Students at the state’s flagship university will be able to earn degrees in the study of Black history and culture starting this fall if a state board approves the school’s plans.

February 20, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Descendant of University of Missouri Founder Creates Slavery Atonement Fund

Endowment will help support research into the impact, effects of slavery in the United States.

February 19, 2008

African-American

A Month of Discoveries

Black History Month brings out the best publishers have to offer.

February 19, 2008

Leadership & Policy

University of Connecticut Hopes to Start Offering Black Studies Major in Fall

STORRS, Conn. Students at the state’s flagship university will be able to earn degrees in the study of Black history and culture starting this fall if a state board approves the school’s plans. The University of Connecticut is asking the state Board of Higher Education to approve an interdisciplinary major it will call African-American Studies. […]

February 19, 2008

African-American

Historians Commemorate 200th Anniversary of the Slave Trade Act of 1808

In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act of 1808, legislation abolishing the transatlantic slave trade for the United States, historians from throughout the African Diaspora gathered to discuss the relevance of the legislation today.

January 12, 2008

African-American

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. • Georgia Perimeter College: VIP Reception and Birthday Celebration, Keynote speaker, Susan L. Taylor, Editorial Director, Essence magazine, Jan. 15. • Morehouse College: Crown Forum: Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, Jan. 24. • Ohio Wesleyan University: 23rd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day worship service and breakfast, featuring Dr. Frank […]

January 9, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Catching Up With the Class of 2002

The first group of “Emerging Scholars” gives us an update on life since their magazine debut in January 2002 in what was then Black Issues In Higher Education.

January 9, 2008

African-American

Letters

A ‘New Breed’ I think Christie is a wonderful example of the “new breed” of Indian law practitioners (see “Broadening the Legal Landscape,” Nov. 29). I congratulate her and the University of Tulsa for being legally farsighted and truly responsive to the Native community’s needs. I do take issue with Christie when she used the […]

December 26, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The First of Its Kind

Cal State Northridge takes the lead by creating the country’s first baccalaureate program in Central American studies.

December 12, 2007

Students

UT at San Antonio Student Group Protests Cancellation of Black Studies Course

SAN ANTONIO — The University of Texas at San Antonio’s cancellation of an upcoming course within the African American Studies Program has prompted the resignation of a professor and drawn criticism from some students.

December 3, 2007